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The world’s first penis transplant has failed after the new organ was rejected by the recipient’s wife. Surgeons in China performed a 15-hour operation to attach a new penis to a 44-year-old man who had lost his own in an accident. But team leader Dr Weilie Hu reports: “The patient decided to give up the treatment because of the wife’s psychological rejection.”

Evening out of the week

A monk has been defrocked for running naked through suburban streets after a heavy night on the rice wine. A woman found the 30-year-old Buddhist snoozing on her doorstep in Phnom Penh in Cambodia. “We have asked him to go home,” says the district’s chief monk. “This is not the first time he has been warned, but he does not listen.”

Ambition of the week

A teenager is hoping to be named shortest boy in the world by Guinness